Saturday, November 20, 2010

Coming Soon....Online Sales

Well...everyone has been asking so perhaps its time we finally do this. We will have our t-shirts and that kind of stuff for sale online very soon, but we will also be posting images and prices of new and random items from the shop on this site ...and they will be available for sale. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

108 comments:

we would love to see you products online for sale.i would so jump on this in a heartbeat.. i love your show and all that you have in your store.....please build a website so we can buy your products...

I was just watching your show. I love the shops collection. It would be great if things were for sale to us online...not just t-shirts and items like that. I'm really interested in finding a human skull and old Tarot card decks for my own collection.

If it's too difficult to post your entire inventory, I love what Erie Basin does. The guy just posts 12 items for sale, changes it up every once in a while. His brick and mortar shop obviously sells a lot more items than that, but it keeps a manageable internet sales presence that I really like the idea of! (http://eriebasin.com/shop.html)

My only issue is that when folks sell items they get a really low-ball price but then when the item is resold, the price is doubled or tripled. I would be upset to see the show and feel like I got shafted. (example- the mortuary table for the model or the bruxism machine- and who spends that kind of money on their dentist???) I know it's New York but it seems kind of greedy.

To: lucyricardo1950, I actually thought their resale value was kinda low. If you pay $250 for something & charge someone else $500, the shop only made $250... there were 2 employees searching random locations for a mortuary table, not to mention the leg work & phone calls that had to go into it behind the scenes... just getting around to the different spots to check out the tables would cost $100 in cab fare alone.

Thats the thing with wholesale vs. retail. If you actually knew what every shop or restaurant bought their items for vs. what they sell them for, it might bother you. We try to be as fair as we can, and still pay the rent , bills, utilities and all of the overhead, which can get quite expensive, plus make enough to live on. But that is the way everything works. I know people that will offer someone a very small fraction of what they will resell an item for...like paying $25 and selling for $5000. We just dont do that. Selling for double or triple what you pay is fairly standard.

I am going to have to agree with Obscura. I am an artist and have worked at art galleries and it is the same thing. An artist can sell their stuff cheaper, but when it is sold in an actual brick and mortar gallery. The price is doubled because the gallery take half the amount of the sale. They are bringing in and finding the customers though, and they have to pay their employees, the rent and overhead. They have to make money too. So it makes sense.

I saw the show for the first time yesterday. It was wonderful to find out there are so many people with the same likes as me. I live in rural America and everyone here thinks I am crazy when I get excited over finding a mummified cat in the attic of my garage. Great show. Can't wait till you start selling online.

I need to see that groundhog I saw on the top of the cabinet in the episode where the prankster was looking for ugly bugs. I grew up with a five-legged groundhog in my house as a kid, which I swear had to be fake... a bad fake at that. Don't know what happened to it, my Mom sold a lot of that stuff at yard sales and swap meets.

I can't wait till the online shopping comes online. I'm sure the offerings ( or should I say items) are sure to be fantastic. I also hope that you will be interested in purchases from collectors the world over to offer us also. I'll keep my eye open, so to speak, for things that are different,unreal, and just plain odd LOLOL.

I love your show and plan to visit your shop this summer. I am however concerned about some of your animal items. If a conjoined calf is born, dies and is preserved, I think that's cool! Or the inner ear bones of a whale wash up on shore, I'd love to have that! However if a baboon is killed for a leg lamp or a sloth is killed and stuffed for a collector, I have an ethical problem with that. I also worry it will create a supply/demand situation where animal parts will be obtained by killing animals, when viewers see how much money they can get. Can you address this issue? Thanks!

I just found Oddities a few weeks ago. I've been catching up on all the shows I can. My cable provider is having a kind of marathon on Memorial Day weekend, so I've set my DVR to record everything I've not yet seen. Love the show! Amazing stuff and amazing people...

I love the gold and red robe that hangs behind the glass counter and the pin up girl glasses. Here in Seattle we have the Ye Old Curiosity Shope. As a kid, I loved going there with my parents. As an adult I love taking my kids. I've become very disappointed in it over the last several years though, because now the the place is filled with annoying tourist garbage.

If you people are seeing things your interested in on the show, have you not considered calling them to see if they will accept some sort of money order or something with extra for shipping to send it to you? It's money in their pockets, and they seem like nice people, I honestly can't see Mike or Evan saying no. Then again, not everyone is as they appear on TV, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

I am an absolute fan if your show and your store! If I ever get to NY from California your store will be a must to visit!!! So are you guys actively designing your online store? My husband and I do websites for a living. Our company is Red zebra media Inc. And we could really do something awesome!!! Maybe in trade! Can't wait to shop and get my very own oddity. By the way, does Ryan do custom work? I'd love to send him the skeleton of my beloved cat Mocha to rearticulate! He does amazing work!!!! Fan for life! Dawn LaPolla

Mike and Evan,Your wonderful new show helps fill a growing hunger in our modern over-sanitized America. Shedding a small ray of light on these unusual personalities and their passion for “weird” and “surprisingly real”. We need more access to the curiosities and mysteries that interesting people create and indulge. I am hungry for new glimpses of those wonderful oddities that walk into your shop.

when will the online store be up and running????? i can't wait i'm trying to find a way from california to you guys to come see the shop but a website to buy from would help for now since i can't get there or find any oddity type stores here in california

I can't wait - when can I start shopping?? My Ol' Man is dreading this, he isnt into the same Macabre things as I, nor is he going to like the damage that online, Oddities may bring to the checking account - Wuahaha!

Finally... An on line store that actually understands my needs. Sourcing directly from Obscura; that’s so sick and so great. All those wonderful items can now be had. I’m sure my collection will become the envy of all of my lovely strange and eccentric friends. Love it!

Please don't ever sell on-line, in fact, please close the actual store, destroy all of the items and submit to religous purification. (do you think the reverse psychology worked?) I understand taking your time...Rome wasn't build in a day....but, damn, I bet if they started at the same time you announced an on-line store coming soon, it would be a Vegas-like destination spot by now!!! Get on it! We are sick of having to harvest our own freak anatomy!

hey i am your biggest fan ever. i am onl foreteen years old and you inspired me to have werid things like vintriloquest dummys, accoridon,typewriters,spittoons,hoodwinkes and more. please have stuff for sale. i want to buy somthing cool so bad.

Oddities is the best. My eleven year old daughter loves the show. We are fortune enough to live a trains ride away. Mike and Evan are extremely nice. Was just down there yesterday and once again had a great time. You have to go there!!!

any status update? I bought a european mount vintage german mountain goat skull from my local flea market because I couldn't wait for your online store to open. I'm in florida and will never see new york.

Any updates on when the online catalog will be available? I live in Shreveport, LA & I only wish citizens that lived in my area had anything like what I have seen on every episode of Oddities. Thanks for sharing all the history & knowledge with those who would have probably never received it otherwise. Thanks & please keep up the excellent work!

Hi I have a very valid question. Is there any new posts on here from 2012? Last one I have seen was in 2010 if this is true, the site feels a bit abandoned. I see the new shows on and think your shop is still open, but like I have said, no updates, or replies recently? Oh and still wondering, online sales?

Were you just kidding about the online shop? Please let us know either way. I've been saving up some money for some weird stuff since 2010 and it's starting to burn a hole in my pocket. I keep checking back but it looks like maybe you've abandoned the idea putting the shop online.

Hello, my names jewels and I want to cross into the taboo of today my husband and I will be doing a room in our weird little oddities we love:) your show showed us its OK to be different and we can now be open about it. You have a forever Customer will us:) thank you